Quotes of the day

posted at 10:47 pm on March 4, 2010 by Allahpundit

“President Obama’s message to progressives who are dissatisfied with the Senate health care bill is two fold: First: Don’t forget about the uninsured. Second: Don’t forget what failure to pass this bill would do to the party and my presidency.

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“This is perhaps the greatest example of the Democrats’ enveloping myopia. They may reflexively put issues in silos, but average Americans don’t. Most voters are impressionistic, especially independents and moderates of both parties. They look at the whole of what you have done and the how of what you have done. If Democrats ram through an unpopular trillion-dollar health care bill in this climate, with Congress’ approval rating at 15%, they may well cement their image as the worst of Washington and sever their claim on the public’s trust for years to come. Even if ObamaCare delivers over time–and if it avoids the substantial premium increases that the Massachusetts universal care system has produced–it most likely will be too little too late…

“Those numbers beg the question: Would the Democrats actually be better off if their comprehensive health care bill does not pass? I tend to think so, though as I argued last week, the best course for Democrats would be to skip the all-or-nothing trap and pass a center-out bill that contains the 80% of insurance reforms on which both sides already agree. But that’s a moot point: The Democrats are going for broke (in more ways than one). The more salient question is when will the Democrats start connecting the dots–and recognize that the American people are not going to accept a government that is not willing to heed their doubts.”

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I am most sincerely apologetic that my Grecian guesses were interpreted as anything but gastronomic gesticulations, my good sir, Holmes.

hillbillyjim on March 5, 2010 at 2:05 AM

Never be modest about your powers of observation, Watson. I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.

Never be modest about your powers of observation, Watson. I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.

Because of you, I have tried to learn a tiny amount of Hawaiian, but… also because of you I must say in the manner of my people… a big ol’ fat Love you brother, you hammerhead jack-assed three-time sack of shaving lotion–____–__-____-___–__-_-______–_________-__-_!

He’s not a Strong president, which was made clear on the day he told the Rep.’s I won!

DSchoen on March 5, 2010 at 4:21 AM

You make a great point. Obama is immature.

He would let his ego, and the ego of his inner circle, drive policy decisions. However, his direction, his progressive direction, is moving towards a socialist solution that will ultimately hurt the country.

If health care passes, will it help Obama?
I think he will think so. Repealing it will be a another fundamental change.

If that were to happen, then way not Medicare, Social Security, and Welfare. Get rid of all social programs.

I suspect part of the desperation in the White House is over the fact that not delivering on “healthcare reform” proves just how toothless the filthy lying coward in the White House really is. A Democrat led Congress and still ther rat bastard traitor has done nothing of substance that has worked after a year of his term??? The bastard’s supporters thought we would all be living in a socialist Utopia by now.

Obama needs healthcare reform far more than the American public needs healthcare reform.

Caligula bankrupted Rome in four years. This Cloward Piven tool has done it in under one. The economy will not recover before November as it is not in the interest of the Cloward Piven strategy. I’m hoping the checks and balances of the American Government will dislodge these traitors who are breaking America before our eyes. I hope socialism is truly dead in America after this nightmare is over….Impeach Maobama with the new Congress…..

Grijalva’s account was echoed by Congressional Black Caucus chair Barbara Lee, who said the President reminded them: “31 million people will have health insurance as a result of this bill.”

“Did the message resonate?” I asked.

“I think it resonates for a lot of people,” Lee said.

Who is Barbara Lee? According to the person from whom Glenn Beck got the Van Jones story originally:

In terms of the evidence about who recommended and hired Jones, Loudon says that the focus that Accuracy in Media has put on far-left Oakland Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee is correct, since she was “almost certainly complicit in getting Jones hired.” Lee is chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, was a presidential campaign adviser to Obama, and is a friend of Jones and Obama. Jones and Lee worked together on “green jobs” in Oakland.

I recommend reading the rest of the article as it reminds us once again just how radical Obama and his allies in Congress are (as well as noting how he feints moves to the right while actually moving left – and this observation comes from the Weather Underground’s Mark Rudd, and was meant to soothe Leftists who feared he was too “conservative”).

Comrade Barack will be remembered as the clumsy communist who just happened to be America’s first black president.

joe btfsplk on March 5, 2010 at 7:30 AM

The filthy lying coward in the White House has already assured that it will be at least a generation before there is another black President. Whoever that is, he/she may actually be black unlike the mixed-race mutt in office now.

Never be modest about your powers of observation, Watson. I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.

semloh on March 5, 2010 at 2:12 AM

False humility is the enemy of truth – just as much as no humility is.

Same message different words, or to paraphrase a friend; “Thank God I’m humble,unlike these other folks.”

Save the presidency? Ugh. I heard these exact same comments back when Clinton got his huge tax increase pushed through. The last “yes” vote (don’t remember the name right now) said that he wouldn’t be the person to bring down the presidency. Of course, the Democrats then got shelled at the polls the following November, so it wasn’t all bad. But I remain mystified that anyone of either party thinks that this comment wins converts. The die hard party ideologues will shout “you go, girl”, of course, but party ideologues would pretty much scream that if “feces as school lunch” was being proposed. To everyone else, it smacks of nothing more than the idea that one person’s political career is far more important than the health and well-being of the entire United States. It’s the logic train that a child would make. A spoiled, petulant child.

“Obama reminded the assembled Democrats that doing nothing would be politically disastrous. ‘To maintain a strong presidency we need to pass this bill,’ the President said, according to Grijalva.”

This says it all. Obama wants to pass the bill to maintain a strong presidency–FOR OBAMA. Doing nothing would be politically disastrous FOR OBAMA.

Obama doesn’t care whether passing a health care bill would be politically disastrous for some Democrats in Congress because voters in their districts or states are screaming at them NOT to pass it. Obama doesn’t care whether the health care bill would financially disastrous for the American people or American business.

It’s all about the O. Nothing else matters.

When will government of Obama, by Obama, and for Obama perish from the earth?

An Ass masquerading as a President found a Doctor’s white lab coat which had been left out in the sun to dry. He put it on and spoke to his countrymen. All bowed, both men and women, and he was a proud Ass that day. In his delight he lifted up his voice and brayed incoherently and then every one knew him for what he really was.

Cheshire Cat on March 4, 2010 at 11:41 PM

C. S. Lewis predicted Obama perfectly when he wrote about an Ass wearing a lion skin, manipulated by an Ape who wanted to assume the powers of the lion-king of Narnia. The Ape made a treaty with the Calormenes (enemies of Narnia) to confuse and enslave the free people of Narnia (The Last Battle).

In today’s America, Obama is the Ass, Axelrod is the Ape, and the Calormenes are in the White House, trying to confuse and enslave the people.

In C. S. Lewis’ novel, the people were delivered by two children, the real king of Narnia, and a Unicorn! Maybe that can give America some Hope and Change!